Hello, I was not off giving birth, DH took us all out for lunch at my favourite pub and all the children behaved beautifully and made a fuss of me. We had a great time. Then the kids wandered up to the garden centre on their own to look at hamster accessories, and DH ravished me in the laundry room (!) I was then ravished again upstairs, before the kids came home. It was brilliant. Proper nookie, none of this 'This lorry is reversing' nonsense, as we found standing up leaning over the worktop much more conducive to the SPD, funnily enough.
Morale was considerably boosted after all this and I managed to do some spring cleaning in the kitchen and finish the laundry from last week, plus file all the instructions for all the domestic appliances in a special file, Anthea Turner style - I think I may be nesting.
Of course then I was in quite a bit of pain, so I took tablets and went upstairs while DH did accounts. We are apparently reasonably solvent, and if we are really good until September, things should be OK. I had been very worried about all that, what with maternity leave affecting pay and so on. We are such a big family and our outgoings are so large, sometimes it feels like a bit of a battle.
Advice for people:
Bronze, lie about when they got the D and V in the first place perhaps? For most places it's 48 hours.
Springy, as a mum I suppose I am slightly more responsible, but only in the sense of being fussy about sleep at night and making sure people eat properly. Otherwise I am the same as I was before being a mum, more or less.
Right, back to reading other posts now - will post again in a minute.